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US 12,366,002 · App. 17/292,612 · Granted Jul 22, 2025

Process for the oxidation of carbon-containing organic compounds with electrochemically generated oxidizing agents and arrangement for carrying out the process

Inventors: Siegfried Waldvogel (Gau-Algesheim, DE); Michael Zirbes (Mainz, DE); Rieke Neuber (Halstenbek, DE); Thorsten Matthée (Hohenaspe, DE)
Assignees: Condas, GMBH; Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
C25B15/081C07C45/29C07D301/12C25B1/30C25B9/17C25B9/67C25B11/052C25B11/059C25B11/061C25B11/065C25B11/091C25B15/021
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Patent No.
US 12,366,002
App. No.
17/292,612
Granted
Jul 22, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a process for the oxidation of carbon-containing organic compounds where the said compounds have at least one bond with a bond order >1, wherein an oxidizing of these carbon-containing organic compounds to be oxidized is performed with electrochemically generated C—O—O oxidizing agents, in particular peroxodicarbonate. Also described is the use of C—O—O oxidizing agents generated electrochemically from carbonate, in particular peroxodicarbonate, as oxidizing agents for the oxidation of carbon-containing organic compounds, in particular carbon-containing organic compounds where the said compounds have at least one bond with a bond order >1. Finally, an arrangement for the oxidation of carbon-containing organic compounds is provided, comprising a first unit for the electrochemical preparation of C—O—O oxidizing agents generated electrochemically from carbonate, in particular peroxodicarbonate, and a second unit for the oxidizing of the carbon-containing organic compound with the C—O—O oxidizing agent generated electrochemically from carbonate, in particular peroxodicarbonate. In this case, these two units are connected to one another in such a way that an ex situ generated oxidizing agent can be fed to the second unit.

Claims (16)

1. An assembly for the oxidation of carbon-containing organic compounds, comprising:

a first unit for the electrochemical production of dioxodicarbonate oxidant from at least one carbonate, wherein the dioxodicarbonate oxidant is generated electrochemically using an electrolysis assembly, and

a second unit which is spatially separated from the first unit for the oxidation of carbon-containing organic compounds selected from the group consisting of

lignin,

carbon-containing compounds having an acyl group,

carbon-containing compounds having a heteroaryl group, and

carbon-containing compounds having a vinyl group,

a conduit which connects the first unit to the second unit for the supply of dioxodicarbonate oxidant produced electrochemically from the carbonate in the first unit to the second unit, and

a temperature regulation unit which regulates a temperature of the first unit to 10° C. or below, and regulates a temperature of the second unit to a temperature that is higher than in the first unit.

2. An assembly as claimed in claim 1 for the oxidation of carbon-containing organic compounds, wherein the first unit comprises at least one cathode, at least one diamond-coated anode, a pump for pumping a carbonate-containing electrolyte at a flow rate through an electrolyte chamber, and a device for generating a pressure of at least 1 bar.

3. An assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electrolysis assembly is an electrochemical cell having

a flat cathode element,

an anode that toward the cathode has a doped diamond coating on a metallic or Si-based or graphitic substrate,

a seal that bounds an electrolyte chamber between the cathode and the anode in a form of a frame, wherein said seal is pressed against the cathode and the anode by a contact-pressure device, and

a flat cooling element arranged on a side of the anode facing away from the cathode for cooling the anode by a coolant flowing in a coolant chamber formed between the anode and the cooling element.

4. An assembly as claimed in claim 1 further comprising an apparatus for regulating current density, pressure, through-flow, and/or carbonate concentration in an electrolyte.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 30, 2021
From: WALDVOGEL, SIEGFRIED; ZIRBES, MICHAEL; NEUBER, RIEKE; MATTHÉE, THORSTEN
To: CONDIAS GMBH; JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITÄT MAINZ
Reel/Frame 057323/0231 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2018 128 228.1 · Nov 12, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220010443A1 · Jan 13, 2022
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